196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, Gothic novels, and juvenile literature. Authors such as William Bartram, Ann... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Part I Verdant Beginnings; Chapter 1 Imagining Natural Communities; Chapter 2 Landscapes of Captivity; Chapter 3 Juvenile Environmental Literature; Part 2 Wild Visions; Chapter 4 Speculation, Degradation, and The Pioneers; Chapter 5 The Biogeography of The Prairie; Chapter 6 Envisioning Disaster; after Afterword;
Biography
Matthew Wynn Sivils is Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA.
'Sivils set out to draw attention to a literature that has been largely overlooked in the formation of the American literary canon. In this he succeeds admirably. As a children's literature scholar, I am delighted to see works aimed at children incorporated into such a study ... Overall, this is a very welcome study which finds the balance between the general and the particular. I might also add that it is extremely pleasurable to read.' International Research Society for Children's Literature 'Ecocritics and early Americanists alike will find much of interest here. ... American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 has much to offer. Sivils more than delivers on his promise "to illuminate this early stretch in the nation’s larger environmental journey, so that we can learn from the past while we work to address the environmental challenges of the present-day".' Green Letters
